The actor, who revealed this week that he secretly got married, confirmed on Wednesday’s episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” that he wed novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza.
Ahmed, 38, clarified that he wasn’t trying to keep his marriage a secret.
The pair initially met “so randomly” in a New York cafe while he was prepping for his film “Sound of Metal,” where he plays a heavy metal drummer who starts to lose his hearing.
As for what their secret wedding looked like, Ahmed said they kept things small because of the pandemic.
Ahmed initially broke the news of his wedding on the Jan. 11 episode of Louis Theroux’s “Grounded” podcast, saying, “It’s the first time I’ve ever mentioned it in an interview.
Mirza is known for her novel “A Place for Us.”
